About a year ago I took my last CRT monitor to Goodwill. Its been so long since this card has worked I can't remember what the boot options are anymore if it has any. Not much of a manual came with it just a couple of pages. My x58 has a built in Marvell controller on it that is also uses CTRL+M. The system starts so fast that it takes a few tries to get into the BIOS. Right now I don't have any empty Sata drives to try to install a OS on but everything seems to work again. The only down side was somehow I screwed up my XP x64 in my spare machine and I need to redo it now. Thanks Hanson and everyone who also posted on this problem.

It is useful to provide the original name of the file you downloaded, not the one offered by the server. However, I was able to locate that file and it seems you downloaded the oldest firmware for U3S6R0, from 2009, which Hanson reported to give BSOD.If you are happy with the current situation and the image works great, there is no need to read further. But if you have problems or want the latest firmware, you should look at the message I posted yesterday. One BIG warning: if the image is wrong, you won't be able to use the card again until using a programmer to reflash the chip.

lordkag, for now I think I'm going to just leave it the way it is for now. Marvell controllers seem to be tricky to flash in my opinion. They are the only ones that I have had problems with. My x58 had a Marvell controller update a while back and did not flash properly. After a couple of tries I managed to reflash and get it to work somehow. Most post on the subject of flashing them seem to say "if it works leave it alone".

I bought a couple of new Sata drives for another computer. I must have the wrong firmware installed. The drive is seen in Bios, Boot Menu, and in accessible in Windows with f16t300p3936n2.zip. However Windows will not install or boot up to a drive on the controller. In one of your posts you asked what is the exact controller that your card uses. The chip on my card is "Marvell 88SE9123 - NAA2 P8A07603.1 0923 BOP TW". Tried the new smaller.rar and the oldbigger.rar and they did not work.